The Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence at USF

Friends, allies, change-agents and teachers: I write, speak about, and encourage ongoing commitments to teaching and learning about the history of how we constr...ucted, maintained, and preserved-as-we-transformed White Supremacy and other forms of racism through law. I do so not to promote neurotic shame and blame which do not help but because, as one of my readers just reminded me, most of us were never taught this, even in our good schools. And because that history is immense, and still with us, living through us and all around us, each and every day. If we want to do our part to remake the world from here, we owe it to ourselves and to our communities to read, understand and teach about White Supremacy and the systemic nature of racism. #TheInnerWorkofRacialJustice #TheUnrestHasDeepRoots

http://usfcte.net/ Tomorrow Feb. 21 | 23:30 p.m.! Join Linda Adler-Kassner, Professor and Associate Dean of Education, UC Santa Barbara for her talk: From Wells to Wormholes - Engaging Threshold Concepts Through Inclusive Teaching and Learning: http://usfcte.net/

Join the CTE Summer Book Club: http://usfcte.net/summerbook/ A dinner and conversation about teaching with 100 colleagues! On Thursday, Aug. 15 from 68 p.m., CTE will host USF’s ninth annual faculty Summer Book Club. The Summer Book Club gives faculty the opportunity to read a common book over the summer and convene in August for a dinner and interactive discussion that will serve as the inspiration for CTE programs and events throughout the academic year. ... This year's Summer Book Club selection is The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (20th Anniversary Edition) by Parker J. Palmer. The book will be provided by CTE when you sign up. "If you are a teacher who never has bad days, or who has them but does not care, this book is not for you. This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life." Parker J. Palmer. We hope you'll find this book inspiring and engaging; we know it will inspire lively conversations in August and beyond.

201920 Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs)! http://usfcte.net/flcs/ We're excited to announce the Faculty Learning Communities for the 2019-20 academic year! Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) bring together small interdisciplinary groups of faculty (six to ten), who meet twice a month each semester for an academic year to address a pedagogy or academia-related issue of mutual interest. FLCs are a great way to meet colleagues and expand your knowledge of teaching. Find the 2019-20 FLC descriptions and online sign-up form here: http://usfcte.net/flcs/

USF students, faculty and staff, please join us for the Annual Provost's Lecture on Teaching and Learning this Thurs 4/11 @4:30 in Fromm! There will be coffee and cookies and an awesome talk about collaboratively using multiple areas of expertise to problem-solve with Dr. Sha Xin Wei (Arizona State University)!

Join CTE for the upcoming Teaching Cafe: Teaching Controversial Issues: Framing Issues and Choosing Pedagogical Approaches Oct. 30 | 11:45 a.m.12:45 p.m. in Malloy 230 Oct. 31 | 121 p.m. in UC 402/403... Conflicts in the U.S. and abroad are making educators pay increasing attention to how we teach controversial issues in ways that cultivate inquiry, critical thinking, and political consciousness. This teaching cafe grows out of last year’s Faculty Learning Community on the same topic. The cafe will focus on how to frame controversies we want to explore with students, and how to choose pedagogical approaches to teach them. It will address questions such as the following: Is a particular issue open or is it settled? Is it empirical or normative? What kinds of questions will frame the issue so that students examine multiple perspectives on it? Learn more and RSVP: http://usfcte.net/teachingcafe/

Join us for the CTE Teaching Cafe on October 30 & 31! Teaching Controversial Issues: Framing Issues and Choosing Pedagogical Approaches Oct. 30 | 11:45 a.m.12:45 p.m. in Malloy 230 ... Oct. 31 | 121 p.m. in UC 402/403 Conflicts in the U.S. and abroad are making educators pay increasing attention to how we teach controversial issues in ways that cultivate inquiry, critical thinking, and political consciousness. This teaching cafe grows out of last year’s Faculty Learning Community on the same topic. The cafe will focus on how to frame controversies we want to explore with students, and how to choose pedagogical approaches to teach them... https://shrtm.nu/HQog

Academic Freedom in Dangerous Times : A Panel Discussion with USF Faculty Oct. 10 3:30-5:00 pm - TODAY! University faculty face a national climate of rising intolerance and a widening partisan gap in perception of the value and impact of higher education. We have witnessed a steady decline in higher ed’s commitment to the protections of tenure, even as Information technology and social media play a new and unpredictable role in public perception of faculty work. Co-sponsored ...by CRASE at the University of San Francisco RSVP: shrtm.nu/FQuY

Join the CTE next Monday and Tuesday for 45 minutes to learn about gathering evidence that will prepare you to tell the story of your teaching. Sept. 24, 2018 | 1212:45 p.m. in UC 504 Sept. 25, 2018 | 34 p.m. in UC 402/403

Finding some fun, peer-reviewed sources with The Chronicle of Higher Education ...